[OE-core] using an external (arm) toolchain - just checking i did this properly

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   having never used an external toolchain to build an OE image, i
> figured i'd give it a shot to build for qemuarm so, based on *minutes*
> of research to see what it would take to use one from code sourcery,
> what i came up with was:
>
> 1) download arm-2009q1-203-arm-none-linux-gnueabi.bin and run it to
> install arm toolchain into a personal directory
>
> 2) add the following to my local.conf:
>
>   TCMODE = "external-sourcery"
>   EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN = "/home/rpjday/CodeSourcery/Sourcery_G++_Lite"
>
> and that would appear to be it.  i'm going to poke around the recipe
> files to see *how* using an external toolchain is supported but is the
> above fundamentally correct for just using this one?  thanks.

That worked for me.

-M

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